I read the titles out loud.

“Fifty ways to play with a stick!”

“One hundred global games that involve using a stick.”

“Twenty five creative games with sticks.”

Do we really need websites to tell us how to interact with nature, especially at such a basic level?

Surely there lies in every human a series of basic urges that passes from generation to generation? Even though the first recorded instance of a stick being used in a sport was in an Egyptian relief carving from around 2500 BC that shows two men playing a game similar to hockey, we might assume that sticks have entranced us from the earliest days of human history.

Let children design their own games whenever possible. A game is more meaningful when it comes from the heart.

Not from the internet.

That’s my story.

And I’m sticking to it.